Charity Work
In 2005, Carlton completed the New York City Marathon and donated the pledge money she collected to Musicians on Call, a nonprofit organization that brings live and recorded music to patients' bedsides. She also went an entire year without wearing shoes in order to call attention to the plight of the Blue-footed Booby, which lives off the coast of Ecuador.
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